Re: An AppleScript to start an SVN Server on boot
Re: An AppleScript to start an SVN Server on boot
- Subject: Re: An AppleScript to start an SVN Server on boot
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:13:53 -0400
On Mar 14, 2012, at 7:42 PM, Tom Robinson wrote:
> Safari download window: there's other browsers.
Sure, but I have my plugins and my preferences and I like to use the app how I use the app.
> Auto termination: because Apple thinks that in a few years it'll seem natural, like not needing to specify a maximum memory size for an application, and having applications be paged out rather than needing to quit them. You never think about when apps auto quit on iOS -- it's what you're used to :-)
Note that most iOS apps are not opening documents. And iOS doesn't auto quit apps. All your apps stay memory resident until there is no memory to run them. You double click on the home button and you can switch to the apps. But It's the opposite approach. Mac Apps are mostly document based, while most iOS ones aren't. Quitting an app's GUI on a non memory constrained environment while there is a boatload of free RAM available is actually penalizing the user by not showing the app's GUI while the app is still memory resident AND is in its smallest memory requirement state.
I always keep TextEdit and Preview and often QuickTime open and nav to the files I want to open from their open dialog. Can't tell you how many times a day I do this with EVERY application I use. I keep them open explicitly so I can use the File Open dialog.
This IS the workflow I've developed over decades of being a faithful Mac user. Forcing this change on established users instead of offering a system preference to allow the user to control if they want apps to auto quit their GUI or not (100% opposite of 25 years of established precedent) is a crappy user experience. It's a "my way or the highway" approach that is not the pleasant Mac experience we've come to expect.
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> On 2012-03-15, at 03:17, Alex Zavatone wrote:
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>> I am trying to find out how to disable this insane auto app quitting in my spare time and also control the stupid bouncy scroll bars and restore a downloads WINDOW to Safari.
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>> Currently, the bouncy scroll bars are controlled by the elasticity setting of the scrollView and this can be disabled. I built a version of TextEdit that had this turned off, but I want a way to turn this off across all apps before Lion is worth considering using for me.
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>> [(id) scrollView setVerticalScrollElasticity:NSScrollElasticityNone]
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>> According to the docs, Auto Termination should be able to be disabled or enabled in an app's plist but I wasn't able to get that working at 2 AM.
>> If I also need to turn off another setting, I'm all ears.
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>> Why Apple doesn't provide public SWITCHES to most of these annoying functionalities ala a System preference really boggles my mind.
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